As I have not seen any report of our meetings in Brunswick for a long time, I have come to the conclusion to write a few lines for the purpose of informing the brethren and sisters abroad how we are moving along in this place. When Bro. Barnes came here, he thought it advisable for us to have Quarterly Meetings. So he appointed the last Sabbath and first-day, the 26th and 27th of June, for that purpose. When the time came, we met together, on the Sabbath, and had a profitable and interesting time in rehearsing the merciful dealings of God with us, and in speaking of our present experience in the divine life, and of our hopes and fears, &c. In the evening after the Sabbath, several met at the house of Bro. Howland, for the purpose of attending to the ordinances, and we had a very solemn and blessed season. The blessing of the Lord rested down upon us, and we felt the influences of his Spirit moving upon our hearts. Indeed, all our meetings were interesting. Two gave in their names to join, some days before the meeting. One was present, and taken in; the other was absent, and his reception was deferred.
Sabbath and first-day, July 3 and 4, our Monthly Meeting came off, according to appointment. Sabbath morning our social meeting commenced well, but owing to something that was said, foreign to the general tenor of the meeting, it was not so interesting as it otherwise might have been. During the day we had three very good discourses.
First-day we came together again for social meeting, and all seemed to be of one heart, and of one mind, all speaking of the same things. Truly we had a blessed season, and most of us could say of a truth that it was good for us to be there.
Quite a delegation was present from Falmouth, and elsewhere, who gave us some heart-cheering testimonies. Then Bro. Barnes gave two solemn and impressive discourses on the prophecies. It was a solemn and impressive theme to dwell upon, yet it was cheering to the hearts of the patient, waiting ones, who are striving to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, and overcome every obstacle, so as to gain the victory at last, through our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
From your unworthy brother in the bonds of Christ, WM. GATCHELL. Cumberland Co., Maine.
Jefferson Co., Iowa
By Harold Smith
From Sr. Smith.
DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: For the first time, I will try to pen a few lines for the REVIEW, to the friends of present truth, especially to those brethren and sisters with whom I have had the privilege of meeting heretofore in prayer and social meetings. Dear brethren and sisters, we may be scattered for a season, but I do believe the time is not far distant, when, if we prove faithful, we will meet in God's everlasting kingdom, where parting of Christian friends will be forever over.
I am trying to live the truth before a wicked and perverse generation; to walk with God, and receive this testimony, that my ways please him. This, I realize, takes great self-denial and consecration; but, by the assisting grace of God, I feel resolved to put my whole trust in the Lord, that I may be counted worthy of eternal life when Jesus comes to make up his jewels, and take his ransomed people home to reign with him.
Nine years have passed away since I embraced the precious truths of the third angel's message, and I can say to-day that I love them better than ever. I believe it will take a very honest heart to live out these unpopular truths before a wicked and persevering world. I do feel like living more faithful, and giving all diligence to make my calling and election sure while the Lord is sparing my unprofitable life.
Time is short, and what we do must be done soon. Oh! let us be up and doing while the day lasts; for the night cometh when no man can work.
I love the testimonies to the church. I believe they are designed to keep God's people together in the unity of the faith. I love them and the REVIEW next to my Bible. They are all the preaching we have. Oh! let us have on the wedding garments, having our lamps trimmed, with oil in our vessels, that we can say with a truth, Lo! this is our God, and he will save us.
Yours, hoping for eternal life when Jesus comes, HAROLD SMITH.
Jefferson Co., Iowa
Think of This.
PATIENCE must have her perfect work in us, or we shall have no part in the kingdom of God. When that work is wrought in us, we shall have perfect patience. The work of patience is one of pain, but it results in true experience. It is tribulation that works patience; and experience itself can only be obtained from patience. It is evident, therefore, that impatient people are strangers to Christian experience. We certainly can never reach the kingdom of God, till perfect patience is wrought in us. What an admonition does this statement convey to us! How many professors make their whole lives irritable, peevish, and fretful. They dishonor the religion of Christ by their lives, and their end will be ruin and perdition at the last. There will be no fretful persons in the kingdom of God. We must overcome this sinful disposition, or the fire of God's wrath will devour us and our evil nature together.
We Have Life from Adam.
It may be a question, perhaps, with some persons, whether our life is derived from Adam through the successive generations of our ancestors, or whether it is directly communicated to each individual as at the first God gave it to Adam. Reason and observation alike plainly teach the fact that life having once been given to the head of the human family is transmitted from him to all its members. But should this statement be disputed, one grand fact does certainly settle this question: We all die in consequence of Adam's sin. Infants do thus die who can never by any possibility have committed sin. Why do they thus die? The answer is obvious. Adam died because he had forfeited his right to live. His children thus die because he could transmit to them no higher life than himself possessed. In other words they die because they receive from him a forfeited life. But on the supposition that each infant receives life direct from God, who can explain the death of such infants when they have never committed sin?
GOING EAST
By P. Z. Kinne
Notice.
THE following is the time of departure and arrival of trains stopping at Kirkville:
L E A V E.ARRIVE.Utica.Rome.Oneida.Chittenango.Kirkville.
8:15 A.M. 8:55 A.M. 9:33 A.M. 10:05 A.M. 10:14 A.M.
1:50 P.M. 2:35 P.M. 3:12 P.M. 3:45 P.M. 3:57 P.M.
7:10 “ 8:03 “ 8:48 “ 9:27 “ 9:40 “
Teams will be at the station on arrival of trains, to convey passengers to the camp-ground; distance about two miles. Horse keeping and day board can be furnished by a private family near the ground.
P. Z. KINNE.
C. O. TAYLOR
By C. O. Taylor
Notice.
THOSE going to the New York Camp-meeting, and paying full fare on the R., W., & O. R. R., will receive a free return pass at the meeting, good till the 22d, by applying to the Secretary of the Conference.
C. O. TAYLOR
Iowa Camp-meeting.
It has been decided that our camp-meeting shall be held in the usual place this fall; viz., Pilot Grove.
We trust the General Conference Committee will make the appointment in season to have time for preparations, &c. Also for notice to be given through REVIEW of Conference to be held in connection with it.
We earnestly hope Bro. and Sr. White, Bro. Andrews, and other ministering brethren, may be present.
IOWA STATE CONF. COM.
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Minnesota Camp-meeting and Conference.
By Stephen Pierce; William S. Ingraham; H. Grant
The committee have selected the location for the Minnesota Camp-meeting, to be held Oct. 6-10, as per Review No. 3, at Wasioja, Dodge Co., on the farm of Eld. Ingraham. It is a grove of large and small trees, as dense and perfect to protect from wind and storm, as can be found. It is five miles from Kasson Station, and four from Dodge Center Station, on the St. Peters R. R. A daily stage runs from Kasson to Wasioja. Besides this, the brethren will furnish two teams to bring passengers from and to these two stations.
As there is no S. D. A. church in Wasioja, the brethren will see the necessity of bringing small tents, bed-ticks, bedding and provisions. A supply of hay, straw, and oats, can be obtained near the place. Ministers and their wives can put up at Bro. Ingraham's. It is hoped that children of an age not likely to be benefited, but be an annoyance to the meeting, and to Bro. I's peace and interest, also the infirm, and all such as are not able to take tent fare, would not be present.
It is confidently expected that Bro. and Sr. White will be present.
Also, the Minnesota State Conference will be held at the time and place of the above Camp-meeting. All churches belonging to said Conference, and those that wish admittance, will appoint delegates for the same, and send by them written reports of their standing, the number of their members, and the amount of their S. S. funds pledged yearly.
Let the churches bring their tents, and be sure to be in time to have everything in readiness for the meeting to commence on the sixth. Everything should be completed by the evening of the fifth.
STEPHEN PIERCE,
WM. S. INGRAHAM, } Conf. Com.
H. GRANT,
Note from the Maine Tent.
By L. L. Howard; J. B. Goodrich
WE pitched our tent in the village of Livermore Falls, last Thursday, on a very pleasant spot. The village is nearly as large as Norridgewock. We have had five meetings. The attendance has been small till yesterday; it being first-day, about one hundred came to listen. We have learned since coming here that it is a very hard, sectarian place. The people seemed afraid of us at first, but some are beginning to get acquainted. There seems to be some interest to hear. Pray for us, that we may do our work faithfully.
Our address, for the present, is Livermore Falls, Me.
L. L. HOWARD,
J. B. GOODRICH.
Monthly Meeting at Richmond, Me.
By J. B. Goodrich
I LEFT home, Aug. 13, to join Bro. Howard in a tent-meeting at Livermore Falls, Maine, stopping on my way to attend a Monthly Meeting, Sabbath and first-day, the 14th and 15th, at Richmond, with Bro. Barnes. I found those that embraced the truth under Brn. Waggoner and Canright’s labors last winter, strong in the faith, and ready to work in the cause of present truth. Although there were but few assembled, yet we felt that the Lord was with us. Our social meetings were excellent, and we enjoyed the privilege in trying to speak words of encouragement to those who are trying to live out the truth.
A good feeling seemed to prevail through the entire meeting, and those that were not with us in the truth, acknowledged that the Spirit of the Lord was with us. It reminded me of the words of the psalmist, “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.” Ps. cxxxiii. May the Lord bless them, and add to their number daily such as shall be saved.
J. B. GOODRICH.
Livermore Falls, Aug. 23.
M. E. CORNELL
By M. E. Cornell
Note.
THE interest of our meetings keeps up well. We do not see any prospect of leaving here at present. New ones are constantly becoming interested, and though the work goes slow, yet it goes sure.
We send you five more subscribers this mail. Books are taken freely, and we still confidently hope for good here.
M. E. CORNELL
Chelsea, Mass.
New and Important Work.
By James White
“Sermons on the Sabbath and Law; embracing an outline of the Biblical and Secular History of the Sabbath for Six Thousand Years. By J. N. Andrews.”
This work of 164 pages, in neat pamphlet form, containing ten sermons, is now ready. As to the value of the work, it is enough to say that it is one of Bro. Andrews' best efforts. It is the best thing we have on the Sabbath, the two covenants, and the law, to circulate any where and every where. Price, 20 cents; postage 2 cents.
Also, we have sermon seven, on the two covenants, in tract form, 36 pages. Those who will read this little work with care will readily see that it is emphatically a tract for the times. On no point have our opponents taken greater advantage than on the two covenants. This tract fairly meets the case. Its value at this time cannot be estimated. Price, $2.50 per hundred; by mail $3.00 per hundred; single copy postpaid, 5 cents.
JAMES WHITE.
Eld. I. D. Van Horn's Address
The P. O. address of Eld. I. D. Van Horn is Clyde, Sandusky Co., Ohio.
Appointments.
And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
MONTHLY Meeting at Lancaster, N. Y., the second Sabbath in October. R. F. COTTRELL.
PROVIDENCE permitting, we will meet with the church at Parkville, Sabbath and first-day, Sept. 11 and 12; church in Colon, at the house of Bro. W. Hafer, Sept. 18 and 19. Will one of the brethren meet us at the Parkville station, Friday, Sept. 10, at about 2 o'clock P. M.? JOSEPH BATES.
The next Quarterly Meeting for the Washington, Pilot Grove, and Iowa City, churches, will be at Pilot Grove, Sabbath and first-day, Sept. 18 and 19, 1869. Meeting to commence with the beginning of the Sabbath. HENRY NICOLL.
The next Monthly Meeting for the churches of Newton, Burlington, and Convis, will be held at the Austin school-house in Convis, Sept. 11, 1869.
The next Monthly Meeting for the churches of Jackson, Parma, and Tompkins, will be held at Tompkins, Oct. 2, 1869. Will Bro. Byington be present?
R. F. ANDREWS: The paper has been sent from the commencement of this volume.
JACOB BELVILLE: Give us your Post Office address and we will credit your remittance.
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Cash Received on Account.
E Calkins $1.80, Geo I Butler 45.00, S S Butler 55c, Jos Clarke 10.00.
General Conference Missionary Fund.
RECEIVED FROM CHURCHES: Green Hill, R I, $28.00, Exeter 5.00, Ashaway 15.00, Abington, Conn, 20.00, S Lancaster, Mass, 5.00, New Ipswich, N H, 5.00.
Books Sent by Mail.
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Books Sent by Express.
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Benevolent Fund.
B N Berry 75c.
Foreign Missionary Fund.
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